On 17 June LCHR received the delegation from the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights, Rights and Liberties and Consumer Protection from the Kingdom of Thailand, which included S.Swangkarn, the Chairman of the Committee, Vice-Chairmen, and several Committee advisors.

Members of the Thai Senate delegation were appraised of the human rights situation in Latvia and the challenges and lessons learned during the two decades since Latvia regained independence.

The Latvian Centre for Human Rights is an independent non-governmental organisation established in 1993 working with issues concerning integration, discrimination, hate crimes, asylum, migration and fundamental rights issues, as well as human rights in closed institutions.